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Wrestling with our consciousness of time (1)

From
Rod Munday, Cardiff, UK

Michael Brooks seeks a new angle on time (21 April, p 28). Is it not possible that the way our consciousness perceives and experiences time gives rise to the illusion of time as a continuous flow? The past consists of events, memories of which exist in the brain, and our consciousness has access to these. The future consists of events of which there are as yet no memories.

Consciousness cannot exist in the past or the future. It must exist in the present, in the moment when data from the senses enters the short-term memory. I know when “now” …